Protect your Internet subscribers

Nowadays there is tough competition between the Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Local ISPs struggle to compete with the large international ISPs to attract subscribers in a market where price is the main differentiator. There is a limit how low the price can be and yet survive.

One way to gain a competitive edge is to demonstrate for existing and potential subscribers a proactive and professional approach against the perils of the Internet.

Norman offers ISPs a method to secure their customers. NVCNet for ISPs is an email scanning solution that scans subscriber’s incoming emails at the ISP site before they reach the subscribers, and thus enables the ISP to scan and clean emails for malware, or scan and warn the subscriber that an email is infected, etc.

What is NVCNet for ISPs?

One of the problems ISPs face with antivirus applications is that their email solutions are very often based on bespoke code running on non-Intel platforms, or that they run a number of solutions on different platforms like UNIX, Linux, NT etc. With the NVCNet for ISP, ISPs can now implement antivirus scanning on their email solution using the Norman NVCNet technology. It is based on a NT/2000 server application on a separate server that communicates over TCP/IP with a platform independent client application running on the email server. This gives a fully flexible, platform independent, redundant and load-balanced solution. Since the client just transfers a token (fragment) instead of the full file to the server where the scanner resides, the process also has very little impact on bandwidth usage and CPU performance. In addition the NVCNet solution can be tailor-made to meet any specific ISP’s need for an antivirus solution.

Key features of NVCNet for ISPs

• On-access file scanning
• Norman SandBox II - revolutionary way to detect new and unknown malware
• Platform independency
• Scalability